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John Godfrey

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Background

Mr. John Godfrey serves as Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at Samsung Information Systems America. Mr. Godfrey directs Samsung's Washington, DC, activities related to consumer electronics and represents Samsung in external relations with government and industry, focusing on digital television, broadband, content protection, environment, wireless spectrum, and other areas. He served as Vice President of Government and Industry Affairs of Pioneer North ... America, Inc. Mr. Godfrey served as Senior Director of Technology Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council, an association of leading information technology companies. Mr. Godfrey promotes public policy that benefits Pioneer's business interests as well as the interests of the consumer electronics industry as a whole. Mr. Godfrey comes to Pioneer from Sony where he served as director of government affairs. He served as the Chairman of the Board at Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. He served as Member of the Executive Board and Vice Chairman of Video Division Executive Board at Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He served as a Director at Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. the standards developing organization for digital television broadcasting in the United States. Mr. Godfrey was a lead electronics industry negotiator in the 2002 one-way Cable Plug & Play agreement developed by the Cable Working Group under the Consumer Electronics Association's Video Division Board. He continues to work on this issue as vice chair of the Cable Working Group for the Interactive Cable Plug & Play initiative. Mr. Godfrey also serves as vice chair of the Consumer Electronics Association Government Affairs Council. Mr. Godfrey has a master's degree in telecommunications from George Washington University, a master's degree in East Asian studies from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Texas.

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